Office 2016 for Mac is here, so we bring you everything you need to know about the new version of Office for Mac 2016, including Office 365, UK pricing, new features and more.

Office for Mac 2016 first launched as part of Office 365 in July of 2015, but Mac users wanting to buy a copy outright, rather than subscribe, had to wait for Microsoft to launch the boxed version. That finally happened in September, when those Mac users got their wish and Office 2016 for Mac became available for £119.99 upfront. Here, we talk you through the new features in Office for Mac 2016, and help you decide whether to subscribe to Office 365 or buy a copy outright. Plus, we share Office for Mac 2016 UK pricing for each version.

Microsoft Office for Mac 2016 UK price: How much does Office for Mac 2016 cost?

Office Home & Business 2016 for Mac costs £229.99, and includes Outlook as well as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. It's available to buy from Microsoft here.

These versions are only available for one Mac. To install on more than one Mac Microsoft appears to be pushing users towards the 365 subscription model.

If you buy a copy outright, you will only be able to install the copy on one Mac and it comes with 15GB of OneDrive cloud storage. Subscribers, on the other hand, get more OneDrive storage, Outlook, and depending on the subscription package, can install the software on multiple Macs, iPhones and iPads.

Office 365 UK price: How much does an Office 365 subscription cost?

For business users, an Office 365 subscription is available in a number of different packages. Small Business can sign up for £3.30 a month (£39.60 a year) but they won't gain the desktop versions of the apps. The Small Business Premium package costs £8.40 a month (£100.80 a year, 25 users, including desktop versions). Midsize Business can sign up for £9.80 a month (300 users, including desktop versions and Active Directory). There are also enterprise offerings for £2.60, £5.20 and £15 a month.

Home users can sign up for Office 365 Home subscription at £7.99 per month or £79.99 a year and get access to the features, including being able to create and edit documents, as well as desktop versions of the Office apps Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access. The software can be installed on five Macs (or PCs), five tablets and five phones.

There is also an Office 365 Personal subscription option that costs £59.99 a year or £5.99 a month. This includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access, but the software can only be installed on one Mac, one tablet and one iPhone.

Students can get Office 365 University for £59.99 for four years to install on two Macs, PCS, or tablets and two phones. If your school subscribes to the service you may be able to get a copy for free. In the US those in education have been able to get Office 365 for free since 2013, but Microsoft has now extended this beyond the States. You can find out if you are eligible by adding your school email address here. Students get access to the Office suite of products, as well as 1TB of OneDrive storage and access to Office Online via a browser.

Office Home & Student 2016 for Mac costs £119.99 and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. While the Office Home & Business 2016 for Mac costs £229.99, and includes Outlook as well as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Office 2016 for Mac requires Mac OS X 10.10 and 4GB RAM.

How does Office Home & Student 2016 one-time purchase compare to the subscription model?

Are there versions of Office 2016 for iPad & iPhone?

Microsoft Office for Mac 2016 new features

The updated Office software products feature a number of new features, including a greater focus on co-authoring and other collaborative features, and stronger unity across multiple platforms. In theory an Office user from PC should be able to jump on a similarly equipped Mac and start working straight away, given how closely aligned the two interfaces have been designed.

Of course, we know most of the product details already, having tried out the previews extensively since March (more on the previews below and in the individual preview articles above), but the company pointed out that it has made numerous tweaks to the preview versions based on the thousands of pieces of feedback it has received from the trial programme: "Since the start of the preview in March, we released 7 updates and improved the performance and stability of the applications, and added features like improved Mail Merge in Word, Propose New Time in Outlook, and support for External Data Connections in Excel."

"The new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote provide the best of both worlds for Mac users - the familiar Office experience paired with the best of Mac," said Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office Client Applications and Services team.

"If you already use Office on a PC or iPad, you will find yourself right at home in Office 2016 for Mac. It works the way you expect, with the familiar ribbon interface and powerful task panes. Mac users will appreciate the modernized Office experience and the integration of Mac capabilities like Full Screen view and Multi-Touch gestures. With full Retina display support, your Office documents look sharper and more vibrant than ever.

"Office for Mac is cloud-connected, so you can quickly get to the documents you've recently used on other devices and pick up where you left off. New, built-in document sharing tools make it easy to invite teammates to work on a document together. When sharing documents, you won't have to worry about losing content or formatting, as Office for Mac offers unparalleled compatibility with Office on PCs, tablets, phones and online."

The preview versions of Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Word are still available for all to download and try, and will remain available for another month, expiring on 9 August. Here's how to download the Office 2016 for Mac previews.

How can I uninstall the Office 2016 for Mac preview?

If you installed the new Office for Mac 2016 and decided that it's not for you, you can remove it from your Mac. Follow these instructions:

Open a Finder window

Select the Applications folder

Navigate to the Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, or OneNote app that you want to delete

Drag the relevant app to your trash

Empty the trash by right clicking (ctrl-click) on the trash icon

Why did Microsoft release a preview of Office for Mac 2016

Microsoft used the preview to gathering data about improvements that can be made to the final version. For example there was a new ‘Help improve Office’ button in the Preview that you can use to sent feedback.

To report a bug or comment on a feature users could select the smiley face in the upper right corner of the application.

A Microsoft rep told our collegues at Macworld.com that the aim of this feature was to help eliminate a public perception that such feedback is ignored, by proactively responding to reported issues.

This feature isn’t available in the final version of the suite, though.

Microsoft Office 2016 interface

Every Office 2016 application gets a Yosemite/El Capitan look and feel and apps are optimized to work with the Retina display. Office will also offer the Yosemite full-screen mode. There is even scroll bounce.

The only Yosemite features you won’t get are auto-save or renaming, moving, tagging, or locking documents using the document title bar.

You will be able to use OneNote to autosave and synchronization documents, however.

Microsoft says that the new apps are designed to give users a similar experience on all devices, so if you are using the Office apps on Windows, Mac, iOS or the web (or Android) you will use them in the same way.

So that this unified interface is possible, Microsoft has updated the Ribbon – its toolbar that runs across the each document so that it is similar to the Office for Windows 2013 version. Microsoft says that the redesigned ribbon “intuitively organizes features so you can quickly find what you need quickly”.

If you are working on a smaller screen you are now able to hide the Ribbon, which increases the screen space available for editing your document or spreadsheet.

There is also a refreshed task pane interface, which Microsoft claims: “Makes positioning, resizing, or rotating graphics easy so you can create exactly the layout you want.”

New themes and styles also come to the suite of Office apps.

Word 2016 for Mac

Microsoft describes the new Word as having state of the art editing, reviewing, and sharing tools. The company also notes that the new design tab provides quick access to features such as layout, colours and fonts, and the new Format Object task pane gives you complete control over pictures, shapes, and effects.

There are also new collaboration features in Word and PowerPoint. Several people can work on the same document at the same time, thanks to the new Co-authoring feature. We don’t know what the limit is of authors, but it appears that at least 10 people can be involved in editing a document at the same time. When you are editing a document you can see the names of the other people who are in the document at the same time, and view their changes as they make them.

To keep the document in sync Microsoft is using a technology called cobalt syncing. Cobalt studies the changes that are being made and it two people change the same thing at the same time, it will alert users to the conflict.

Another collaboration themed addition is Threaded Comments, which is a little like website comments, letting users add comments that can be viewed by the editors of a document.

There is also a new document navigation pane that makes it easier to navigate through a document. Plus a new Style pane so it’s simple to change the styles being used in the document.

Excel 2016 for Mac

Excel will now support the majority of the Windows version’s keyboard shortcuts in addition to Mac keyboard commands. That basically means that ctrl-c will copy and ctrl-v will paste, as well a cmd-v and cmd-c.

Excel will also offer more advanced analysis tools – the new Analysis ToolPak – which will offer advanced statistical functions, including moving averages and exponential smoothing slicers for pivot tables, as well as auto-complete features for inserting functions and filling in cell data.

PowerPoint 2016 for Mac

PowerPoint also gets the collaboration and Threaded Comments features. In addition it gains a redesigned Presenter View that allows users to easily switch a presentation from one display to another. Microsoft says this Presenter View will become the “mission control for your presentation - displaying the current slide, the next slide, notes and a timer on your Mac, while projecting only the presentation to your audience on the big screen”.

It also offers a customizable presenter window where users can view notes, the next slide, and where they are in the current sequence of slides.

There are also new slide transitions and an improved animation task pane that Microsoft says will help you build your presentation faster.

OneNote 2016 for Mac

OneNote is Microsoft’s ‘digital notebook’ and it is available for free on the App Store. It appears that there is little new in the preview version, although OneNote can now provide optical character recognition (OCR) for documents added to the cloud.

Outlook 2016 for Mac

The new version of Outlook for Mac has been available since last autumn, but only to those with an Office 365 subscription.

When that app launched Microsoft said it offered: “Better performance and reliability as a result of a new threading model and database improvements; a new modern user interface with improved scrolling and agility when switching between Ribbon tabs; online archive support for searching Exchange (online or on-premises) archived mail; Master Category List support and enhancements delivering access to category lists (name and colour) and sync between Mac, Windows and OWA clients; Office 365 push email support for real-time email delivery; and faster first-run and email download experience with improved Exchange Web Services syncing.”

Now it gains an improved conversation view that organizes the inbox around threaded conversations, and a new message preview that gives you the first sentence of an email just below the subject line.

Other new features include a side-by-side calendar view that lets you look at two different calendars together. You can even drop one calendar on top of the other so you can see if there are overlapping events. You can also view weather in the calendar.

There is also support for an Online Archive,

There do appear to be some issues with Gmail or iCloud accounts to this version of Outlook.

Office 2016 code changes

Microsoft has made some changes on the development side. The new apps are fully sandboxed and are written in Cocoa rather than Carbon.

How long does Microsoft usually take to update Office for Mac?

As you can see from the list below, as a rule new versions happen about every three years, and usually the Mac version of Office comes out some time after the PC version. The extra time - often as much as a year - gives Microsoft's Mac development team time to produce a Mac version of the software suite, rather than just port the Windows version.

1995 – Office 95 for Windows

1997 – Office 97 for Windows

1998 - Office 98 for Mac

2000 – Office 2000 for Windows

Late 2000 - Office 2001 for Mac

2001 - Office X - the first Mac OS X edition

2002 – Office XP for Windows

2003 – Office 2003 for Windows

2004 - Office 2004 for Mac

2007 – Office 2007 for Windows

2008 - Office 2008 for Mac

2010 – Office 2010 for Windows

2010 - Office 2011 for Mac

2013 – Office 2013 for Windows

2015 – Office 2016 for Mac

2015 – Office 2016 for Windows

Office for Mac 2011 launched in October 2010, almost five years before Office for Mac 2016 arrived. The wait was exacerbated because Office 2013 for Windows launched in January 2013 but nothing arrived for the Mac.

By comparison, Office 2010 for Windows launched in June 2010 and Office for Mac 2011 launched just 4 months later in October 2010.

This is the longest period of time to have passed between Office for Mac updates, the previous record being 1,088 days, while the longest length of time passing between a Windows and a Mac version update to date has been 188 days.

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larrymcj - 00:20 08-06-2015

I'm sorry...but as a Mac user forced to use Microsoft Office the new preview version just has too many problems, and while I understand this is normal, one of them is intolerable. Open any Excel spreadsheet in the new preview (whether created in the new Preview Excel or the old version) and save as a .PDF. It turns a simple one-page spreadsheet into a three-page .PDF file. Come on, Microsoft, this is rudimentary and something that should work now...not later.

David Chamberlin - 18:19 19-05-2015

So the new version of Word for Mac removes the Publisher and the Focus views - both really useful, the first to make up for the fact that there's no affordable DTP software for OSX, the latter to help with distraction free writing. Not an improvement from where I'm sitting, sadly.

Drabber - 09:42 14-05-2015

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Boglins - 21:07 21-04-2015

PowerPoint - Print Notes - Multiple pages if notes longer than one page. How hard can it be?

TRT1968 - 17:41 21-04-2015

So, in other words, they've brought back the old styles menu which worked so much better than the 2011 version, business users don't give a flying fig about pre-defined document templates anyway, One Drive integration might be useful, providing you don't have restrictions on data sovereignty etc, and the Fresh New look that matches the Windows counterpart is only an improvement if you think the Windows version is good, which I don't, I hate it with a passion.So all in all, why bother?

Duong Vu Quy - 12:49 10-04-2015

Dear Sir,I'm using Office 2016 preview. your product is so far so good. But Only one bug happen in excel.Pointer: Sometimes When I copy one line or one cell example line 1221 or cell H1220, press command+C or right mouse click to select copy, immediately the pointer go up example line 1000 or 980. It make me crazy.I compare time to open the same file excel on Mac and Windows. Windows is faster than Mac OS.One more thing, If I work on large excel file. Scroll speed (up and down or right or left) is not smooth as windows. Please help me to solve this problem.

Jaro248 - 13:41 25-03-2015

Looks great, I have just one question for Excel. I have not found option to insert pivot chart as it is in non mac Excel. Any idea if there is that option ? Thanks

telfnz - 04:08 20-03-2015

Patrick - do you expect that you'll be able to upgrade from Entourage 2008 to Office for Mac 2016 or will it require an upgrade to 2011 and then to 2016?

terryzx - 18:54 06-03-2015

Can Microsoft get any more GREEDY? I am DONE with that crapware forever.

Andy - 14:08 06-03-2015

I have one simple question re the next release of office: will macros work properly? Will I be able to import them from my excel 2004 spreadsheets, run them and then safe the workbook as a 2016 .xlsx file? If the answer is no, then there is no point in me upgrading.

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Jack - 13:49 05-03-2015

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Macworld UK - 12:52 05-03-2015

It's not just ugly to gloat about a print magazine closing and a lot of people losing their jobs, Jack. It's irrelevant. That was Macworld US (no intercap, incidentally), which had a much larger team than us and was able to employ far more sub-editors and proof-readers - exactly the sort of operation you champion. Macworld UK, with its small but extremely hard-working team of writers and editors, is going strong.As is our website: your contention that the readers are leaving in droves is simply wrong.But I sense that there is no arguing with you. You want to visit a free website with continually updated information about Apple products, but you also want it to be written and produced in the style and to the prose standards of a monthly print magazine from the golden age of media.Thank you for the feedback, and for the kind offer of assistance.

JacktheMac - 11:23 05-03-2015

"...modern online publishing is all about choosing what to do with the time and resources available."It was exactly the same with old fashioned offline publishing, which may explain why MacWorld mag died last year.Inaccurate spelling and careless syntax, along with weak, repetitive articles undermine your authority to the reader. This is especially true of articles where the reader needs to wade though pages of verbiage before the point is reached.My not edit each other's copy ? This would at least remove glaring spelling errors - and cost nothing.Also, no longer having a fixed page length has led writers to believe they can ramble on forever, linking into other pieces so that the reader despairs of ever completing a piece and soon stops reading.Working to a word length would really sharpen up your prose skills - and make these pieces much more enjoyable as a result.

Macworld UK - 10:38 05-03-2015

This is an interesting way of asking for a job!I'm sorry to hear you're not impressed by our standards of writing. But given the choice, we will always prioritise improving the information in an article over improving its style. And modern online publishing is all about choosing what to do with the time and resources available.

JacktheMac - 12:57 04-03-2015

It isn’t a simply a matter of a single typo (which, incidentally, was spotted months ago, but left uncorrected). You seem to have abandoned sub-editing, leaving the reader with rambling, repetitive verbiage. You are aware that keyword repetition does not increase your Google ratings, I assume ?It’s a well-known fact in journalism that the writers who require the heaviest editing are the ones who least think they need it. If you need an experienced editor, you have my email address.

Macworld UK - 10:16 04-03-2015

Thanks for spotting the error. But don't leave us over a typo!

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Ishaan Alidina - 14:19 14-02-2015

Have you seen the new Outlook for mac?

housemannh - 23:00 13-01-2015

Bought my macbook pro in 2011. I guess the thing that impresses me most is mac users continue to buy these devices in spite of the fact that almost all really software is written for MS first and then a cut-down shortchanged version is released to mac. Or we all wait(like we have a choice) for these software companies to release the "shortchanged" version at the same price. I'll use my macbook until it dies or I get sick of using it but then it's back to the cheaper platform with more robust software. Sorry I really wanted this to be a good relationship.

Alexandre Vilarinho - 15:49 04-01-2015

Is there any news about what programs will be part of the new office suit for mac? For example, Visio and Project will be available?

Ben - 15:05 26-12-2014

Would be good to use a spell checker! "So now we know it's definatley coming."

Slicer - 02:58 13-12-2014

all I want is Excel to have 'slicers'

LicoriceAllsort - 18:55 10-12-2014

With the free trial subscription to Office 365, is it possible to download the new Outlook and keep a functional copy after the trial expires?

Macworld UK - 17:20 25-11-2014

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Chasing Dharma - 01:46 25-11-2014

Fix the title... spelling. Bad Editor!

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Russell Smith - 10:25 14-11-2014

It seems a great revolution for Mac users. With new version, user would be able to experience additional features of Microsoft GUI on Mac machine.

JohnWhi - 19:51 03-11-2014

I like the new Outlook 15.3 for Mac, though have kept 2011 in case I fall out of love with it. Outlook 2013 for Windows, on the same computer (Macbook Pro, mid 2012, 13 inch, i5, 16Gb memory) has been a consistent pain (mainly problems connecting to IMAP). The Mac version seems clean, fast, and better looking.

Mat Griffin - 16:57 03-11-2014

This beta seems more like a skin, I don't see any new functionality. It is quicker and more stable though.

QA36 - 15:23 31-10-2014

This is historically the only occasion when anyone has ever gotten excited over an image leak of a new MS product. And it's only because the magical fruit is involved. MS should feel grateful for the buzz. But wait just a second... don't you people realize that a new stable version of LibreOffice was released just YESTERDAY? Where is all the publicity hype for that? I was hoping to see some leaked screen shots last week but there was zip, zilch, nada. Are we perhaps, just a little bit, placing a generous amount of importance on one app simply because it comes from a large corporation and because everyone is familiar with it? Just asking out of curiosity.

ProfessorJ - 15:32 30-10-2014

You have that wrong JC. There is no justifiable comparison in what you claim. You wrote a random shoot from the hip post. More directly that is an apples and oranges stretch.Office 365 is the most relevant Cloud collaboration solution yet.OpenOffice and Apple's suite are underpowered for business and the enterprise. They can't hold a candle to Office.

Ever Hopeful - 19:22 29-10-2014

Is there anything in the calendar screen shots to indicate that Outlook will be able to work with Google Calendar? Nice that there is all the cools stuff about the interface and retina- but it for thousands of users Outlook 2011 was a huge disappointment because it would not talk to Gmail IMAP.

JC - 15:47 29-10-2014

MS Office is irrelevant, just like Zune was and XBox now is...Apple's suite works just fine and for everything else there's OpenOffice.org...

Muneesh Kumar - 03:29 27-10-2014

I guess its better we stick to Pages & Numbers, offered by Apple itself. Initially I was very hesitant to make a switch from Microsoft Office to Apple Pages & Numbers, but after a little bit of playing around and training, I have found that infact Apple's Pages & Numbers are much more efficient than Microsoft Office. I have found that Pages & Numbers from Apple are equally powerful when compared to Microsoft Office.

Researcher - 14:56 23-10-2014

In actuality, if you truly work with Excel on a daily basis this is what needs to happen: 1) Make a Mac Excel version in 64bit available and 2) Expand the maximum number of rows to at least 5 Million.

Darrien Glasser - 18:32 20-10-2014

Dang.

Macworld UK - 14:55 20-10-2014

Still no news :(

Darrien Glasser - 00:38 19-10-2014

6 months later, any news?

Gurke - 13:42 16-09-2014

If I would buy office 2011 now (assuming that later this year office 2014 will be released) will I get a free upgrade. Has this happened before?

QWERTZU - 13:25 28-08-2014

No news is bad news ... will Office 2014 be published together with public release of Yosemite?

schalliol - 05:02 19-08-2014

What's with the terrible title when you scroll down? "Is Microsoft going to ditch Office for Mac?" The answer is of course no and it's clear from your article decidedly not. Please don't have such shocking titles for the fun of it.

qwertz - 09:22 18-07-2014

I'd rather have MS to implement all the features available in Office 2010 (Windows):Currently Office 2011 is still missing the ability to correctly:- subscribe to calendars from colleagues (only the default main calendar of a user can be accessed), - import calendar events from an excel file (great feature on outlook 2010)- do proper mail merge - ( many text encoding issues in the output e-mails)- digitally sign documents with certificates (excel, word)- create and use forms using active X controls- use enterprise directory services properly- etc etc...Clearly, all "enterprise" features are crippled or missing - I guess deliberately.Peter

uberfu - 17:22 15-07-2014

TOM - nowhere in the EULA does it state that Microsoft can and may confiscate the purchased consumer product from a customer if and when they deem it. They cannot leaglly uninstall somethign from your computer simply because they have an "EULA". Those are not legally binding and MS would be laughed out of court if they attempted to make a claim on someone's personal property. EULA's are nothing more than a document to make that company "feel" like it actually has rights to something that they sold you. All it does is bind the company to a warranty period - after which they are not responsible for anything f-ing up and it legally prevents you from reslling multiple copies for profit - nothing more.So STFU and go educate yourself before you slap some half-a**ed comment somewhere about something you obviously know nothing about.

uberfu - 17:16 15-07-2014

Yawn.MS can go ahead and stop offering a standalone product for Mac if they'd like. Their software was always subpar anyways. And it just gives me an excuse to migrate to a better alternative.

Morgan Jones - 21:28 14-07-2014

Go on ahead give up with the mac apps i leaned pages 3 years ago and haven't turned back my office apps are now tucked away in my not used folder if we have to pay subscriptopns like for the iPad apps I will not be doing anymore business with microsoft (though I never did much business with them anyway)

Khelil Kridi - 03:27 10-07-2014

I think Microsoft should make some efforts to update microsoft for mac at least so we can use OneDrive just like iCloud. I paid for office 365 subscription and I feel like I did a mistake. Of course I can still install the windows version which is far better. But I am a mac user and always will be.If only iWork could be as developed as office I would say good bye to microsoft product forever

Glen - 10:50 27-06-2014

Lets not be mean to the old Microsofty, it's take a long time to Write crap software, Outlook for example, as an upgrade to Entourage took away feature that made entourage so good, and replaced them with everything that even hardened MS fans hated about outlook! I only use this crudware so that I can share files with all the companies out there with IT dwebs with no imagination!For email now I use Postbox, and Pages and Numbers are so much nicer to use than the MS equivalents!

Starman_Andromeda - 22:10 26-06-2014

Sorry for the posts, but the site via an iPad doesn't' allow editing and thn stops the addition of characters, words, etc. it's almost as bad as Word 2011!

Starman_Andromeda - 22:08 26-06-2014

Work Menu", restore the traditional find, stop the endless crashing, the eystroke rearrangement

Starman_Andromeda - 22:07 26-06-2014

Yawn! Who cares? The only thing they could do would be to fix the many bugs, being back "Add to

Rob - 22:53 15-06-2014

"If you'd read the EULA…" Never has a bit of snark been delivered with a more ostentatious arrogance of condescension. And, in doing so, ole PNtheA Tom has presented himself as - again, I'm being repetitive, if not redundant - an unhelpful schmuck. Now, please more on the capritious nature of… whatever you troll up to next…?

Caprico - 16:47 18-05-2014

I'm aware of the EULA and also that Microsoft doesn't want us to own their software. But knowing that, doesn't make the situation of extremely restricted Microsoft products any better...

PNW Tom - 00:40 13-05-2014

If you'd read the EULA, you'd know that you don't really own software at all--you own a license to use it.

PNW Tom - 00:40 13-05-2014

Why on earth do you insist on claiming that the Mac version of Office will have a similar look and functionality as the Windows version? Why show images of Office 2013 knowing that it will look nothing like this on a Mac? Office 2011 is a comically inept package with virtually no command comparability with the Windows version, and entirely different ways of doing things. Every single Mac version of office has been woefully crippled. It's fine for memo writing, but for serious writing--books, articles, other scholarly or journalistic writing--Office 2011 is a failure.

Pim Stoltz - 17:02 06-05-2014

Skydrive is on this moment OneDrive

macworlduk - 10:38 30-04-2014

Still no news I'm afraid guys. We'll update this article as soon as we hear more.

Michael - 00:56 30-04-2014

Yeah this would ne Really nice! Any news??

Myles Gartland - 15:37 29-04-2014

Not a peep for over a month. Odd for the Mac community.

macworlduk - 19:59 14-04-2014

Right now Outlook causes nothing but trouble on my Mac. Bring back Entourage... Actually, don't.

Patrick Duffy - 13:46 12-04-2014

Well I hope Outlook2014 is nothing like the Windows Outlook. I have tried using that for 9 months and it is visually bad. I do not know anyone who likes it and when we tried to implement MS365 to a workgroup they all complained about the online GUI and we had to dump it. Looks like the interface for both is temporary. That together with Windows 8.1 frustration means I have dumped a 9 month old PC and moved to a Mac Mini to go with my Macbook Pro I have had for 4 years. I have MS365 still and use MS2011 Word/Excel & Powerpoint but not Outlook. The $99 a year for Skydrive plus office was not a bad deal. But I will review when it expires now I have the Mac Mini. Unfortunately Apple restricts what you can store on iCloud.

Martin - 12:16 08-04-2014

hope they will do this! any news about this??

macworlduk - 10:44 07-04-2014

Thanks for your suggestion, we'll be updating this article soon. SEO is important but we want all of our articles to be informative too, of course!

AAW - 16:19 06-04-2014

This article seems to be SEO heavy - same details written several times with a slightly different sentence...and still has outdated info further down the page.Could you please clean it up and make it easier to follow with bullet points at the top? Or is it just SEO that you're going for?

Steve 'Mazgul' Maz - 09:27 04-04-2014

Thanks, I thought as much. Very disappointing really, SharePoint just doesn't work right on 2011.

macworlduk - 09:53 03-04-2014

No new information I'm afraid Steve. The press conference unveiled Office for iPad but no news about a Mac product.

Augure - 21:09 02-04-2014

So any slated release date?

Steve 'Mazgul' Maz - 17:04 31-03-2014

Has there been a update on when 2014 will be released ?

Caprico - 03:54 29-03-2014

Totally agree. Plus that monthly fee stuff Microsoft introduced is ridiculous... If I want such software I spend money on it once and own it, not the other way around like Microsoft wants it. Unfortunately there are still some incompatibility issues with Office documents, otherwise I would have said goodbye to Microsoft products a long time ago. I'm using LibreOffice which also is a great alternative.

Delegator - 19:08 28-03-2014

Why would any Mac user pay for Office365 when the Mac version hasn't been updated in 3 years? If I pay an annual subscription fee, I expect updates at least annually. I don't expect, nor do I want, full fledged releases every year. But fixes to bugs like the broken links in PDF generated on a MAC are a requirement if you want my money to keep rolling in.

Peter - 01:50 28-03-2014

Did they develop a version of project and visio for mac too? This would be a Great thing too :)